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Bethesda has announced that the standalone Quake Live client which was announced in November has been released. The game remains free-to-play and offers extended access and features to members with Premium and Pro accounts. Pro subscribers may now host matches for standard users on all seven Premium game modes, including Freeze Tag and Domination. Players […]

id’s Marty Stratton has said that Quake Live will receive a fairly large update next Tuesday, July 14. Information regarding the content yet to be revealed, but updates to the game will happen on Tuesdays from here on out, but not every Tuesday. Updates will take around 3-4 hours, and bring down the servers, and […]

id Software has released the sixth and last map for Quake Live’s six-week long campaign. “Quarantine” has a new area with three zones that “surround and are connected in multiple ways to an area of higher ground at the center of the map” and allows up to 10 players. It was designed for Clan Arena, […]

id Software released Hidden Fortress this week, the first of six maps for Quake Live, and next on the list is Siberia. Scheduled to land May 26, this is map two with four more to come in as many weeks. Siberia is a capture the flag event designed for between 6 to 12 players and […]

id Software has launched its “6 new maps in 6 weeks” campaign, meaning we get a new Quake Live map every Monday for the next six weeks, Eurogamer reports. DreamCast classic Hidden Fortress is up fist and will be followed by what the company promises will be both new and classic maps for the rather […]

id’s Marty Stratton’s detailed a sizeable content update for free-to-play shooter Quake Live, saying new maps and modes are on the way this month. You’re going to get: A Practice section New maps Use of private matches and servers Tweaked skill-matching And plenty more. Get it all through the link. Thanks, BigDownload.

id boss John Carmack’s told Gamasutra that Quake Like – which hit open beta today – is partly about showing what the PC can do as a platform. “A lot of this project was about doing something that the PC was going to be better at than the consoles,” he said. “Our modern triple-A stuff […]

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Bethesda has announced that the standalone Quake Live client which was announced in November has been released. The game remains free-to-play and offers extended access and features to members with Premium and Pro accounts. Pro subscribers may now host matches for standard users on all seven Premium game modes, including Freeze Tag and Domination. Players […]

id’s Marty Stratton has said that Quake Live will receive a fairly large update next Tuesday, July 14. Information regarding the content yet to be revealed, but updates to the game will happen on Tuesdays from here on out, but not every Tuesday. Updates will take around 3-4 hours, and bring down the servers, and […]

id Software has released the sixth and last map for Quake Live’s six-week long campaign. “Quarantine” has a new area with three zones that “surround and are connected in multiple ways to an area of higher ground at the center of the map” and allows up to 10 players. It was designed for Clan Arena, […]

id Software released Hidden Fortress this week, the first of six maps for Quake Live, and next on the list is Siberia. Scheduled to land May 26, this is map two with four more to come in as many weeks. Siberia is a capture the flag event designed for between 6 to 12 players and […]

id Software has launched its “6 new maps in 6 weeks” campaign, meaning we get a new Quake Live map every Monday for the next six weeks, Eurogamer reports. DreamCast classic Hidden Fortress is up fist and will be followed by what the company promises will be both new and classic maps for the rather […]

id’s Marty Stratton’s detailed a sizeable content update for free-to-play shooter Quake Live, saying new maps and modes are on the way this month. You’re going to get: A Practice section New maps Use of private matches and servers Tweaked skill-matching And plenty more. Get it all through the link. Thanks, BigDownload.

id boss John Carmack’s told Gamasutra that Quake Like – which hit open beta today – is partly about showing what the PC can do as a platform. “A lot of this project was about doing something that the PC was going to be better at than the consoles,” he said. “Our modern triple-A stuff […]

Over 113,000 people have signed up for Quake Live since the free-to-play shooter went into open beta this morning, as seen on the game’s twitter. Around 10,000 users are constantly in line to register for the game. The latest incarnation of id’s classic FPS looks as though it may well “work”. Good luck if you’re […]

The Quake Live beta is now open, meaning anyone can play completely gratis. Hit this to get involved. The free-to-play shooter includes 40 arenas, five play modes and tons of other stuff. It’d be very rude to not give it a go. So do.

According to CVG, id’s John Carmack is mulling over a Quake Live premium service. Quake Live has always previously been discussed as free to play. His comments will appear in the next issue of PC Zone and read thus: In the beginning Quake Live will be completely ad-supported, it’s not out of the question that […]

According to this Shacknews piece, id revealed at QuakeCon today that the firm was forced to change the name of upcoming free-to-play shooter Quake Live from the original Quake Zero because of a domain squatter. Apparently the company announced the game without registering the domain. Sensible. “This was an idea we had mere weeks before […]

Oh. Our. Gods. The E3 Quake Live trailer – after the break – shows something so obviously amazing we can scarcely believe it. The fact this is completely free to play points at a game and concept that could be wildly successful. See for yourself. There should be plenty more on this from QuakeCon at […]

Speaking to IGN, id’s John Carmack has confirmed that you won’t be able to switch the in-game ads off in upcoming free-to-play shooter, Quake Live. “No, there’s no current plan for that,” he said. “Not to say it couldn’t happen depending on how the market bears out on it. Actually, turning the ads off right […]

John Carmack’s admitted that his favourite id Software game is Quake III Arena. You know what, John? Same with us. The code legend gave up his personal shooter preference in a PCGamer interview about the upcoming free-to-play Quake Live, and also took the opportunity to stick a knife into completist “movie” gaming. “Quake III Arena […]

Here. Quake Live was announced today as a free-to-play version of the id shooter, which will be funded by ads supplied by IGA. The game will apparently run in a browser, but that doesn’t look too browser-friendly to us. We’re sure we’ll be proved wrong.